When PriorityBoostEnabled is true, the system temporarily boosts the thread's priority whenever its associated process is taken out of the wait state. This action prevents other processes from interrupting the processing of the current thread. The PriorityBoostEnabled setting affects all existing threads as well as any threads subsequently created by the process. To restore normal behavior, set the PriorityBoostEnabled property to false.

PriorityBoostEnabled has an effect only when the thread is running in a process that has a PriorityClass set to one of the dynamic priority enumeration values (Normal, High, or RealTime).

Note

Boosting the priority too high can drain resources from essential operating system and network functions. This could cause problems with other operating system tasks.